John Locke

A few of the letters discuss female friendship and feminist opinion, as if seeking to raise the consciousness of the recipient. Some in this category occur at random among other letters. Most treat topics of...

In this poem she calls on the monarch to make himself truly happy by opposing war and slavery, and by supporting missions. She opens vividly with a fantasy of how she herself would behave if...

Johnson found at this stage a good deal to criticize but also much to praise. The work possessed, he said, such force of comprehension, and such nicety of observation as Locke or Pascal might be...

This novel is largely autobiographical, and contains an unsympathetic portrait of the author's mother, radical feminist Anna Wheeler , in the character of Aunt Marley. The school that Rosina attended is also portrayed as a...

An advertisement (dated at Iver in Buckinghamshire on 3 September 1820) explains that the book is written for the young scholar and hopes to demonstrate the connexion between ancient and modern literature (the...

The letter after the first of Alphonso's, addressed by Mrs P— to a male correspondent, is a kind of philosophical essay, which takes issue with Locke over the belief that intellectual ideas are derived from...

William Grey , the girls' cousin and Maria's future husband, encouraged them to study philosophy, particularly the writings of Francis Bacon and John Locke . A cousin of their father, Sir William Hall Gage ...

These letters provide a vivid picture of ET's life: her cultured friends, her alertness to read and comment on new and old books (she and Gwinnett discuss Locke , Malebranche , Norris , Astell

The religious writer and diarist Elizabeth Burnet , who had already discussed CT 's writing with John Locke , wrote to ask him to contribute four or five guineas for what sounds like a subscription for Trotter.

CT made her first anonymous foray into philosophical debate, with A Defence of the Essay of Human Understanding, Written by Mr. Lock.

Catharine Cockburn (formerly CT ) published (as the author of A Defence of Mr. Lock 's Essay of Humane Understanding) A Letter to Dr. [Winch] Holdsworth: her first publication since her marriage in 1708.

During her London years she was an ally of Damaris Masham , but quarrelled with Delarivier Manley . She found both a patron and a friend in Sarah, Lady Piers (who wrote poetry herself). She...

CT finished her treatise by the beginning of this year. It appeared under two very slightly different titles bearing the same date, both printed for William Turner and John Nutt . As her full...

Her defence brought praise from Locke himself (of the strength and clarity of her reasoning), a gift of books, and the opening of an actual correspondence. It brought her, too, warm praise from John Toland

In these two theological polemcs CT defends the right of the individual to interpret scripture for himself (or by implication herself), and the Christian orthodoxy of Locke , whom Holdsworth had accused of being a...